Josh White - Josh White and Carl Sandburg (1965/2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Joshua Daniel White (February 11, 1914 – September 5, 1969) was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, actor and civil rights activist. He also recorded under the names Pinewood Tom and Tippy Barton in the 1930s.

White grew up in the South during the 1920s and 1930s. He became a prominent race records artist, with a prolific output of recordings in genres including Piedmont blues, country blues, gospel music, and social protest songs. In 1931, White moved to New York, and within a decade his fame had spread widely. His repertoire expanded to include urban blues, jazz, traditional folk songs, and political protest songs, and he was in demand as an actor on radio, Broadway, and film.

However, White's anti-segregationist and international human rights political stance presented in many of his recordings and in his speeches at rallies were subsequently used by McCarthyites as a pretext for labeling him a communist to slander and harass him. From 1947 through the mid-1960s, White was caught up in the anti-communist Red Scare, and as a consequence his career suffered. Nonetheless, White's musical style would go on to influence several generations of musical artists.

TRACKLIST

1. Josh White - Motherless Child, Pt. 1
2. Josh White - Hard Time Blues
3. Josh White - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
4. Josh White - Prison Road
5. Josh White - Motherless Child, Pt. 2
6. Carl Sandburg - Boll Weevil Song
7. Carl Sandburg - Careless Love
8. Carl Sandburg - Woven Spirituals
9. Carl Sandburg - Foggy Foggy Dew
10. Carl Sandburg - The Gallows Song



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